What does authorship, cultural freedom, and decolonization look like? We will create a concrete plan to achieve these goals here in the Department of Art & Art Professions through a series of workshops, events, and organizing meetings. This non-hierarchical, people of color centered, movement space is open from January 25th to March 4th in
The Commons and Rosenberg Gallery. Let us be clear - This space will not fall into the institutionalized depths of social practice art and neoliberalism. Although our time in The Commons and Rosenberg Gallery is limited, our call to action and solidarity has no end. We tie our resistance to pre-existing, global movements towards liberation, and we recognize the fluidity of identity and relationships of power. We, too, recognize our own individual positionality within these systems of power and hold ourselves accountable in our fight for liberation. We acknowledge our department’s previous conversations on racial inequality, however, we protest the perpetuation of oppressive systems in each step towards “progress.” We assert that liberation is not achieved only by action, but also by resisting the oppressive structures and language of dialogue. We don’t need representation. We demand
authorship. We don’t need cultural sensitivity. We demand cultural freedom. We don’t need safety. We demand decolonization.
